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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
"Take it with you to any cafe in any city, and Perec will be both your drinking partner and your tour guide, drawing your attention to each little detail coming and going.” –Ian …
Marcel Schwob - The Children's Crusade
“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name of …
The Arthritic Grasshopper: Collected Stories, 1934-1944
First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her the “new Alice”), Gisèle Prassinos quickly found herself established in the …
The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
A collection of previously unpublished erotic manuscripts from the author of The Songs of Bilitis A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925) was a friend of, and …
A Terrace in Rome
The first English translation of the novel awarded the 2000 Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie Française A Terrace in Rome describes the tormented life of Geoffroy Meaume, a …
Murder Most Serene
In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful …
Malpertuis
Jean Ray brilliantly upends the haunted-house tradition in this widely acclaimed puzzlebox of a novelA reinvention of the Gothic novel and an established classic of fantastic …
The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine
Treatise on Elegant Living
Honoré de Balzac's keystone text on dandyism Honoré de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of …
The Cathedral of Mist
A collection of ethereal stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from …
Oscar A. H. Schmitz - Hashish
First published in German in 1902, Hashish is a collection of decadent, interwoven tales of Satanism, eroticism, sadism, cannibalism, necrophilia and death. Encountering the …